Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...above arrangements, each class will have to subscribe not far from $600, if the other departments can be relied upon for anything. With these small sums to collect, there ought to be no difficulty in getting the needed amount. Certainly every man in college ought to subscribe his small share to the lasting benefit of all the athletic teams. It certainly would be a disgrace and a parody on Harvard's enthusiastic support, if the committees should have any difficulty in their undertaking...
...ability there is often found the same miserliness which we find in material things. The difference between the two is this, that the man rich in ability is not blamed if he does not impart his riches, while the man rich in money receives nothing but curses unless he shares it. Yet these riches, mental and material, are both alike in that they are but loans from God, and the scholar no less than the rich man is under the obligation to share his riches...
...Overture "Euryanthe" was composed in 1823, Strange to say its first presentation was a failure. The violin parts are exceedingly intricate and this with the immense number of unexpected modulations caused a disastrous break in the performance. Since then the work has been given much less than its due share of attention. It certainly is full of beauty having as it does such a wealth of modulation and harmonic effect. Parts of it are weird and ghostly but it all comes out well in a shout of triumph, a fitting close for so excellent a concert...
...wish to give the thanks of the college to the men who worked so hard during the last week to get the freshman team ready for the game. To Mr. Newell for his hard and faithful work during the earlier and more discouraging part of the season a large share of these thanks is due, but it is especially to the great number of graduates and 'varsity players who have coached for the last week that we wish to show our gratitude and appreciation now. The list is too long for us to name all the men here. It molded...
...Romantic mood in any such way as Browning, for example, passed beyond them. He was like the Romantic poets, too, in the fact that it was to nature he turned to find escape from the crude actualities of every-day life; and it is probably through his share in the great Romantic work of spiritualizeing nature that he will be most enduringly influential...